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Value Addition of Agricultural Production to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals

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Value addition is the creation of value at different stages, by different actors throughout the value chain by add value of agricultural production. Value added may be related to quality, costs, delivery times, delivery flexibility, and innovativeness of agricultural products, among other characteristics. The size of value added is decided by the end customer’s willingness to pay. Opportunities to add value depend on a number of factors, such as market characteristics; institutional, social, and environmental conditions; and technological capabilities of the actors involved in that process.

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Globalization and expanding international markets as well as the fast-growing middle- and high-income classes in many developing countries offer opportunities for developing country agricultural and other producers to operate in emerging national and international markets (Trienekens 2011). According to this last author, that means that producers must gain better control...

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  1. ISCTE-IUL, DINÂMIA-CET – Escola Superior de Comunicação Social – Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria José Palma Lampreia Dos-Santos

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

    Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari

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Dos-Santos, M.J.P.L. (2020). Value Addition of Agricultural Production to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_55-1

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